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ReviewFrontiers in plant science2014

From soil to plant, the journey of P through trophic relationships and ectomycorrhizal association.

Adeline Becquer, Jean Trap, Usman Irshad, Muhammad A Ali, Plassard Claude

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Review in Frontiers in plant science, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
21citing papers in PubMed
12.6field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 125 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Gnotobiotic growth and phosphorus limitation of Arabidopsis thaliana and co-occurring microbes on phosphated iron oxides.Biometals : an international journal on the role of metal ions in biology, biochemistry, and medicine · 2026
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  8. Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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  10. Potential for Mycorrhizae-Assisted Phytoremediation of Phosphorus for Improved Water Quality.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020
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  12. Applied and environmental microbiology · 2020
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  13. Identification and inoculation of fungal strains fromSaudi journal of biological sciences · 2020
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  14. Effect of alder on soil bacteria offers an alternative explanation to the role played by alder in rock weathering.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019
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  19. Unearthing the roots of ectomycorrhizal symbioses.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2016
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.

Adeline BecquerUMR Eco&Sols, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique Montpellier, France.
Jean TrapUMR Eco&Sols, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement Montpellier, France.
Usman IrshadDepartment of Environmental Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology Abbottabad, Pakistan.
Muhammad A AliDepartment of Soil Science, Bahauddin Zakariya University Multan, Pakistan.
Plassard ClaudeUMR Eco&Sols, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique Montpellier, France.
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique · MABahauddin Zakariya University · PKCOMSATS University Islamabad · PKInstitut de Recherche pour le Développement · BJ

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Phosphorus (P) is essential for plant growth and productivity. It is one of the most limiting macronutrients in soil because it is mainly present as unavailable, bound P whereas plants can only use unbound, inorganic phosphate (Pi), which is found in very low concentrations in soil solution. Some ectomycorrhizal fungi are able to release organic compounds (organic anions or phosphatases) to mobilize unavailable P. Recent studies suggest that bacteria play a major role in the mineralization of nutrients such as P through trophic relationships as they can produce specific phosphatases such as phytases to degrade phytate, the main form of soil organic P. Bacteria are also more effective than other microorganisms or plants at immobilizing free Pi. Therefore, bacterial grazing by grazers, such as nematodes, could release Pi locked in bacterial biomass. Free Pi may be taken up by ectomycorrhizal fungus by specific phosphate transporters and transferred to the plant by mechanisms that have not yet been identified. This mini-review aims to follow the phosphate pathway to understand the ecological and molecular mechanisms responsible for transfer of phosphate from the soil to the plant, to improve plant P nutrition.

Indexed as

bacterial grazersectomycorrhizal associationphosphatephosphate transport systemstree P nutrition

Identifiers

PMID25360140
PMCPMC4197793
OpenAlexW2096241409

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